Green Lynx Spider and Eggcase

A fine first post, Elizabeth. Welcome to NPN. Consider using a tripod. With one you could have positioned the camera to the vertical. Also you could have decreased your shutter speed to get a smaller aperature giving you more depth of field (DOF).

Keep posting. This is a great place to learn and I find your choice of subject very interesting.

I just love the transluscent legs. Very interesting shot.

Thanks for your comments. I have a monopod now, which is easier to carry around in the field (not that I'm lazy, exactly, but since I'm usually also carrying tools and other equipment, weight is a consideration), and has made decent bird pictures possible...just made my second photo-post, to the avian forum (getting brave...) I tried using an old tripod we have to take dragonfly pictures, but I couldn't move around the way I need to...but you're right, for spiders on webs, it would probably work quite well.

Elizabeth

These spiders aren't as big or as obvious as the Argiopes...but they're uniquely beautiful. They change color with the host plant--they always have translucent legs, but the number and color of the spots on the legs can change, as well as the markings on the body. I have a series from last fall of four of these guys on four different host plants, all guarding "nests". So if you see a "messy" looking web in the late summer/fall, look for the egg-case, and then the spider...they're one of my favorites. The spiderlings, when they emerge, stay within the "nest web" for several days--they look like tiny orange beads. The females are very protective, and quickly get between the lens and the spiderlings if you get close in...I learned to sneak up verrrrry slooowly to get spiderling shots.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the way the translucency highlights the spider

Really well done Elizabeth (esp. for a handheld image) - I am familiar with the species and one of my favorite arachnids

Welcome,
The legs have it.

Very nice Elizabeth- hope he's in a warm place tonight- it's frosty here.
Pretty lighting- well shot

Thanks for the welcome & comments, y'all. I spent the day working on the new rain barn roof, so I'm too stiff to do more than say that and head for the sack. (But all trusses and purlins are up, and some of the roof panels, thanks to some hard-working friends who helped us out.)

Elizabeth Moon
Tired in Texas

This is a grand looking spider Elizabeth and you did her justice with this nice image. Good eye to see this beautiful little critter. I hear ya about the tripod stuff....I have a definite love/hate relationship with the thing and my knees most definitley do too!! I hate carrying lots of stuff that weighs me down. Welcome to NPN by the way and glad to hear all the trusses and purlins are up!

Unique perspective.

Hi Elizabeth

I don't do a lot of macro work but it doesn't take a genius to see this is a stunner!

David